Biography – Age
Although not much information is available about his childhood, we know that Todd Thompson was born on January 8, 1963 in Grand Rapids, Miami, Florida, United States to Mary Thompson. He has a brother named Trevor Thompson.
The TV personality with an impressive height of 6ft 2 quickly rose to fame for her marriage to celebrity chef Giada De Laurentiis. Born in Rome and raised in Los Angeles, Giada is the daughter of actress Veronica De Laurentiis and producer Alex De Benedetti. She is also the granddaughter of Italian film producer Dino De Laurentiis (“Barbarella”, “Blue Velvet”). Giada was exposed to cooking and entertainment from an early age. Her grandfather, Dino, owned a group of Italian restaurants called DDL Foodshow, where she often ate. She was inspired by a career in the kitchen.
Giada eventually became an acclaimed chef and Food Network star known for her cooking shows Italian Everyday and Giada at Home. She is also a regular contributor and guest co-host on NBC Today. The celebrity chef who also owns a restaurant in Las Vegas has written several cookbooks and offers a line of cookware at Target. More so, his TV show Giada at Home won him the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host.
Todd and De Laurentiis met when the celebrity chef was a 19-year-old anthropology student at UCLA and, at the time, Thompson knew nothing about cooking. The two married on May 25, 2003. The marriage which produced a child in 2008, a daughter named Jade Marie De Laurentiis-Thompson finally crashed after 11 years in 2014. Thompson and De Laurentiis have first announced their separation on Facebook, explaining that their decision to separate was to focus on the future; adding that “the irresistible desire for the happiness of their family gave them the strength to progress on separate, but still linked paths”.
Although some have claimed that the couple’s divorce was the result of De Laurentiis’ many flings with at least three men, including Bobby Flay, Matt Lauer and John Mayer, such claims have been repeatedly dismissed by the cook. Their divorce which gave both parents joint custody of their daughter Jade was not cheap. Since the couple had never signed a prenup, Thompson was able to keep her $3.2 million home in Pacific Palisades (including the $300,000 in art/furniture) and half of the unpaid advances. paid with books from De Laurentiis, while receiving $9,000 a month. support payments for Jade.
Thompson and De Laurentiis remained gender friendly. They remained close throughout their post-divorce to help raise Jade together. One of the secrets to their success as Jade’s co-parents is that they’re close together, so their daughter is stable and her surroundings are as similar as possible in both places. By this, the former couples say that they support each other and, in turn, support Jade.
Even though it looks like Todd might be single for now, Giada has however moved on to a new relationship and found happiness with FABLife producer Shane Farley.
Todd Thompson’s Net Worth, Where is he now?
From 2008 to 2014, Todd appeared in 62 episodes of his ex-wife’s TV show Giada at Home, a show in which she shares her love for entertaining guests by hosting unique meals for get-togethers with friends and the family. For Giada’s first Las Vegas-based restaurant, Todd, who is a fashion designer, is credited with designing the restaurant’s chef’s coats, an idea and advertisement that aimed to make the restaurant a home away from home. Of course, that was before the couple split!
Todd Thompson currently works as a fashion designer for Anthropologie as well as other brands. Although the exact details of his salary are not known, his contributions to the fashion industry and the $9,000 monthly alimony paid as part of his divorce from ex-wife Giada give his net worth a boost. value estimated at $8 million.